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Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"?
If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- |
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"spaco" wrote in message .. . Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). Take a gander at this for a lot more. A little tricky to start but comprehensive at the finish. http://www.download.com/Quick-Key/30...-10534922.html Regards, Edward Hennessey |
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It can also be done without the numlok.
° j/b "spaco" wrote in message .. . Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- |
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"spaco" wrote in message .. . Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- Thanks for that 2¢ worth of information, Pete. g I've used those alt nnnn for some time now. Very useful! Harold |
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spaco wrote in
: Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- Also.... Ø = Alt 0216 ² = Alt 0178 × = Alt 0215 ± = Alt 0177 -- Anthony You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make better idiots. Remove sp to reply via email |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:27:54 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm,
"Edward Hennessey" quickly quoth: "spaco" wrote in message . .. Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). Take a gander at this for a lot more. A little tricky to start but comprehensive at the finish. http://www.download.com/Quick-Key/30...-10534922.html Why not just use the built-in Windows Character Map? Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map But first figure out what font you use in Usenet. I use Courier because of its easy reading and monospace (fixed-width) style. (When someone posts an ascii graphic, I can see it right away.) -- Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. --e e cummings |
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Also ALT 248
° JR Dweller in the cellar spaco wrote: Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
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On 2007-12-22, spaco wrote:
Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Of course -- there are other problems which can result from this. That is part of an extension to the ACSII character set (the standardized part is all with the parity bit clear, and the character which you generated has the parity bit set. (Octal code 260 for that,) With a plain ASCII terminal set to ignore parity (as is common) that would display as '0' (the numeral zero). With various other systems (including Windows boxes with different charactersets selected, including different national charactersets), it is possible that you will get other characters displayed. And to *generate* the character on different keyboards, and different systems, you use different methods. For example, on a Sun keyboard, you hit the "compose" key, followed by an underscore '_', followed by either an upper case 'O' or a lower-case 'o'. (Yes, they both generate the same character. Interestingly enough, the character 'º' in *my* system is a different code -- octal 272, decimal 186, or hex BA. *That* shows as the degrees symbol in my eiditor, while what you entered displays in the editor as \260, the code for part of the non-printable range. It *does* show as you intended in the email client and pager, but not in the editor which I use. It is for reasons like this that I normally avoid posting to usenet using *any* character beyond what is found on the keycaps. That way, I know that everyone will see it the same. When I post -- I want *everyone* who is interested to be able to read what I've posted -- not to show off tricks at the keyboard for generating characters outside the range of standard 7-bit ASCII. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Gee, guys, I didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest on this! I just
thought this was way for me to dress up my own Turbocad drawings, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. I meant the information for those who aren't already as advanced as you guys are. Pete Stanaitis -------------- spaco wrote: Ever want to use the degree symbol instead of typing the word "degree"? If yes: With "Numlock" ON. hold down the alt key and type 0176 (USING THE KEYPAD). ° ° ° ° Ha! Pete Stanaitis -------------------------- |
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"spaco" wrote: Gee, guys, I didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest on this! (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Don's post was not a slam at you--it was a very helpful admonition to people like me, who learn a little, and find themselves worse off. |
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Be aware too that the IBM extended ascii character set may not display as
intended on computers of recipients living in countries outside the USA (for the reasons Don mentioned). My experiences with this date to the 1980's but it caused me to just get out of the habit of using the extended ascii set. Here's more than you ever wanted to know: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...cii+characters David Merrill "spaco" wrote in message news Gee, guys, I didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest on this! I just thought this was way for me to dress up my own Turbocad drawings, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. I meant the information for those who aren't already as advanced as you guys are. Pete Stanaitis -------------- |
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